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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of South Holland District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official South Holland website
37,485 approved · 4,542 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 7 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Car Park and Premises Drapers Place Spalding Lincs PE11 1AY
Received 19 Sept 2017Ivy Cottage Jekils Bank Holbeach St Johns
Received 6 Aug 2008North Childers Lodge Pecks Drove Spalding
Received 11 Aug 2004Adj. 61 South Drove Lutton Marsh Spalding Lincs
Received 15 Nov 1994Meat Products Factory Fulney Lane Spalding Lincs
Received 20 May 1999Deeping St Nicholas House Littleworth Drove Deeping St Nicholas Spalding, Lincs
Received 1 Mar 1999Ferndale Ravens Bank Whaplode St Catherines Spalding Lincs
Received 29 Oct 199311 Beech Grove Donington Spalding Lincs PE11 4XQ
Received 28 Aug 2001Marinka Cottage Hurn Bank Holbeach Hurn Spalding Lincs
Received 7 Jun 20012 SHEEP MARKET SPALDING PE11 1BH
Received 28 Oct 202150 BOURNE ROAD SPALDING PE11 1JW
Received 22 Nov 2018Foxes Low Road Holbeach Spalding Lincs
Received 18 Oct 1993Field OS No 1846 Fleet Parish Frostley Gate Holbeach Fen
Received 12 Sept 20037 ASHBY GARDENS MOULTON SPALDING PE12 6QR
Received 5 Jul 2021Bridge Road Long Sutton Spalding Lincs
Received 27 Nov 1998LAMBERT FARM COTTAGE LAMBERT BANK HOLBEACH ST JOHNS SPALDING PE12 8RT
Received 30 Sept 2021Land adjacent 37 Barrington Gate Holbeach Spalding PE12 7LB
Received 24 Feb 2010Adjacent 87 Broadgate Weston Spalding PE12 6HY
Received 14 Jul 2014Barrington House Farm Holbeach Spalding Lincs, PE12 8QG
Received 27 Sept 2002Sarahgate Lane Quadring Spalding Lincs PE11 4QE
Received 10 Jul 20185 Stonegate Spalding Lincs
Received 1 May 2002Rear of Royal Mail Cart Public House 101 Pinchbeck Road Spalding Lincs PE11 1QL
Received 19 Nov 201231 CLAY LAKE SPALDING PE11 2QG
Received 6 May 2020Land adjacent: 28 Six House Bank West Pinchbeck Spalding Lincs PE11 3QG
Received 18 Oct 2017Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for South Holland District Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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